As you listen more and more, your analytical skills should improve, and the process will become easier. The Listening Quizzes contain questions that can only be answered as you listen to and analyze the music. You can click "Save" after you finish each example, then after you finish all of them for the Unit click "Submit." It is important that you listen on the best-sounding equipment you can - even decent headphones will sound better than your tiny laptop speakers. As you proceed through each Unit, you will play the musical examples as they appear in the text - BUT - in order to get credit for them you must use the Listening Outlines assignments on the Connect assignment page and listen all the way through each example. It is essential to this course that you listen to plenty of great music - masterful performances of compositions by the geniuses of previous generations - the Classics, as it were. Let us know when you complete any late work, as we have to transfer your grades manually from Connect to myTC. You will be allowed to continue to resubmit any of the study work until the end of the semester to improve your grade. You may be dropped from the course if you have 3 unexcused absences or continuously submit failing work. The College requires that online students turn in at least some of each week's assignments in order to be counted present for that week, as if you were showing up in a classroom on campus. Using the special LearnSmart "Practice" feature will improve your understanding and retention of the information in each section and even earn you some extra credit at the end of the semester. You will need to restudy them to do well on the exams. Obviously, you should score very high, since you will be looking up the answers in the textbook. Your grades will normally be transfered to myTC (Jenzabar) each Tuesday.ĭuring your study time you will complete and submit all of these study assignments for your study grade. On Tuesday (at the beginning of each cycle) we will open the next unit's Study Quiz, Listening Quiz and Listening Outlines on the Connect website to prepare you for the exam you will take during the second week through the next Monday. Each cycle covers one of the textbook's units (Dr. This course is organized in two-week cycles, beginning with the second week of the semester.
#Music an appreciation 9th trial#
McGraw-Hill offers a free trial period to access Connect for the first couple of weeks if you want to check it out before purchasing or are waiting for financial assistance.Ĭlick here for link to the Connect Website. There is also a feature called LearnSmart, which will provide valuable assistance as you study the text and will earn you some extra credit on your final grade. You must purchase the passcode for Connect, a unique website offered by the publisher, McGraw-Hill, available in the TC bookstore and on the publisher's website. You do not have to purchase the physical book, since the passcode will give you online access to the textbook and the music you will listen to as well as quizzes and exams. As you might expect, this study is primarily about the most important composers and their finest compositions throughout the history of Western Civilization since the Roman Empire. He is our expert in describing the nature and principles of music and discussing those people who have been writing, making, enjoying, and paying for it for the past millennium or so. Our online textbook is MUSIC: An Appreciation (9th Brief Edition) by Roger Kamien.
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